Keyup only after last key with jquery

Question

I\'m coding a simple script to extract database informations on input keyup event.

The problem i have is that the keyup event is always repeated everytime the user press

Answer 1

You're basically there. You just need to clear the timer if they enter another letter; otherwise, your callback will execute after the 1000 ms regardless of whether they keep typing.

Something like this should work:

$("input").keyup(function (event)
{
    var self = this;
    if (self.timer)
        clearTimeout(self.timer);

    self.timer = setTimeout(function ()
    {
        self.timer = null;
        alert(self.value);
    }, 1000);

});

Where I just have the alert, you'd put your ajax code to write back to the server.